NYU Spoon caught up with the mind behind the food, Carson Yiu of Openhouse, who said he fell in love with the nightmarket concept during a trip to Taiwan. Since then, he’s been promoting the street-style food fest through events like this one.

Photo by Dan Dao

Nightmarket 2013 took over the Old Bowery, an abandoned subway station turned pop-up event space. Here’s how it went down: